Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Kale's POV

"Distance to the target?" Kakashi asked.

"I'm at five meters." Sakura said.

"Same." I said.

"Me to."

"I'm ready."

"Ok, than go!"

We all burst out from the tree line and boxed in the target.

"Got it!" Naruto yelled jumping on top of the cat.

"Is there a ribbon on the ear?" Kakashi asked.

"Yep, this is the one." Sasuke said.

"Cool we got it then let's head back."

Later

We went back to the meeting hall and returned the cat to its owner who almost squeezed the poor thing to death. This wasn't the first time we had retrieved a pet as a team but this was the first time I felt bad returning it to the owner. As Team #7 we had been working together for a little over a month now, most of our jobs were simple retrieval jobs, nothing to really write home about but good experience none the less.

I feel bad for the poor thing.

"Hmmm…" The Hokage looked at his paper "Kakashi's team #7, you next job is to babysit an elder's grandson."

"No way!" Naruto whined "That's boring! Find us a more incredible mission."

"Ha…" I sighed fixing the part in my hair "You're constant yelling is gonna bust my eardrums."

"Idiot you're only a rookie!" Iruka-Sensei yelled "Everyone starts off with simple work like this."

"But we always get the crappy ones." Naruto whined louder.

"Ugh…" I rolled my eyes and plugged my ears to drown out his yelling.

"Be quiet." Kakashi said slapping Naruto on the back of the head.

Hokage explained that jobs come in various levels and that the levels corresponded to the various ninja ranks. He finished up by saying that the D-rank missions we had been doing were perfect for us.

Naruto kept complaining until we all just gave up the fine.

"Ok. If you want it that much I can give you a C-Rank Mission, it's to protect a certain individual."

"Cool is it like a princess or something?" Naruto asked.

"We actually get to do this?" I wondered out loud.

"Calm down I'll introduce him." The Hokage turned towards the door "Come in."

"What's all this." A man said opening to door "They're just a bunch of punk brat kids, especially the one with the dumb face."

"He's not talking about me right?" I whispered to Sakura.

"No I think he mean Naruto."

"Of course." I nodded.

"I'll kill him!" Naruto snapped.

"You're supposed to protect him idiot." Kakashi sighed grabbing Naruto's collar.

"I'm an expert bridge builder Tazuna, and I expect to be protected till I get home and finish the bridge." The old man said.

"Alright you guys go get your stuff and meet at the gate in half an hour." Kakashi-Sensei said "That's when we leave."

We all spilt up to back for our trip, I was excited it wasn't every day that I got to go out of the village like this, and on a big job too. I made sure to take my handbook in case I had time to practice and I obviously took changes of clothes.

"Yeah let's go!" Naruto cheered.

"Why are you so worked up?" I asked.

"Cause this is the first time I've ever left the village." He said looking around.

"Am I really gonna be safe with him?" Tazuna asked.

"Don't worry I'm here." Kakashi sighed.

"Hey don't mess with me old man!" Naruto yelled "Someday I'll be the best Ninja around and I'll become Hokage."

"Doubtful." The old man scoffed.

"Shut up I will!" Naruto yelled "I'll do anything and get you to acknowledge me!"

"No, even if you became Hokage I'd never care."

"I'll kill you!" Naruto yelled.

"Naruto please calm down." I said trying to break up the little word battle.

Kakashi-Sensei was able to get Naruto to drop it and we started our long journey. As we walked I felt the dirt getting kicked up by my boots.

Sure has been hot these last few weeks.

"Excuse me Mr. Tazuna your from the Land of the Waves right?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah what about it?" the old man grumbled.

"Sensei do other countries have ninjas too?" Sakura asked.

"Not in the Wave Country but lots of countries do have them." He explained that smaller countries tend to stay out of ninja affairs but there were the three major lands, the Fire Country where our Leaf Village is, the Wind Country and the Hidden Sand Village, the Earth Country and the Hidden Rock Village, the Lightning Country and the Hidden Cloud Village and finally the Water Country and the Hidden Mist Village. Each of those five villages has a Kage, a leader, ours is the Hokage but in someplace like the Water Country the leader is called Mizukage.

"Wow The Hokage is the best!" Sakura smiled.

Her face looks more genuine than she sounds.

"No need to worry though we won't be in any combat on this mission." Kakashi explained "I doubt we'll even see an foreign ninja."

We walked a few more yards before something felt off.

"WAH!"

We all turned around to see Kakashi-Sensei binded with chains by two attacks.

"Huh?!"

"What's this?!"

"That's one down." The attacker said pulling his chains.

The binds tightened and split Kakashi-Sensei like a melon with a hammer.

"HAAA!"

"Sensei!"

The two assailants were suddenly next to Naruto "This makes Two."

The two joined hands and started throwing their chain at Naruto. Sasuke jumped up and threw shurikens to pin the chains down.

"Naruto get out of there." I yelled.

Sasuke grabbed the two men's hands and kicked them in the face.

"Exort, Exort, Exort!" I said moving my hands and making three orange fireballs float around my body "Invoke: Sunstrike!"

"HMM!" the two men cut the chain to break away and avoid my laser.

My beam burned the ground but the two had moved to split up, one going for Naruto and the other going at Tazuna.

"Get back!" Sakura said pulling out a kunai to protect herself and the man.

Sasuke dashed over toward Sakura, prepared to block her.

"Hyup!" Kakashi-Sensei appeared and garbed the man, having already grabbed his partner.

Of course it was a decoy…I can't believe we thought he was actually dead.

"Sorry about not helping right away you ended up getting hurt didn't you Naruto." Kakashi sighed "Anyway good job Sasuke."

"Hmph…" Sasuke huffed before looking at Naruto "You alright Scaredy Cat?"

"GA!"

"Not now Naruto." Kakashi said "Don't move we gotta get the poison from that claw out of your system. Oh and Tazuna…we need to talk."

Kakashi tied the two attackers to one of the nearby trees.

"These two are Chunin class level Ninjas from the Village of the Hidden Mist." Kakashi-Sensei said "They're known to keep fighting no matter what."

"How did you know?" the one man asked, his voice muffled by his mask.

"It's been sunny for days now." Kakashi said "It made no sense that a puddle would be in the road."

"Why did you let those brats fight?" Tazuna asked.

"I could have killed them in an instant if I wanted too." Kakashi explained "But I had some questions to ask them…who's the target?"

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I want to know if they were after us…or him." He said pointing at Tazuna "We weren't told there were ninjas after you, we were told to expect bandits and common thugs. Now this mission just shot to B-Rank. I'm sure you had a reason to lie, but now we're stuck operating outside of or job."

"This is bad." Sakura said "We need medicine for Naruto and we can't handle guys like that, we should just go back to the village."

"Hmm…" Kakashi-Sensei rubbed his chin "Maybe this is too much? We should probably turn back."

"GAAAAA!"

We all turned around to see Naruto stabbing himself in the hand.

"What are you doing?!" Sakura and I both yelled.

"We're not turning back." He hissed holding up his bloody hand "We're gonna protect that old man."

"Naruto it's great that you released the poison but…too much more and you'll bleed out."

"AHH!"

"Relax and let me wrap your hand you'll be fine."

Sensei wrapped the hand and said Naruto was good to go.

"Sensei." Tazuna called "I think we should talk."

"I have a feeling things are gonna get pretty strange." I told Sakura.

AN

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